Hi,
This question has most certainly allready been asked, I've seen threads
where people obviously have solved my issue, but found none where anyone
care to explain how and thought I'd better start me a new thread then to
bump/hijack an old one.
So provisioning Windows…
What I want to accomplish is this, and I feel I'm almost there, is to bare
metal provision my windows hosts from Foreman chainloading over to WDS that
will serve the images needed. Yes, I am aware of the wimaging project but
don't find it suiting for my needs as I have my WDS and that is a
requirement for my environment. And from what I found on my standard search
engine is that people have accomplished this, obviously my obstacle was a
nobrainer for them, sadly I'm not that lucky. My problem is how to get my
customized unattend.xml down from Foreman before my first reboot? Obviously
WDS by default can only handle a per-image unattend.xml so it by itself
seemingly can't serve a per-server unattend.xml which is what I want. So
from what it seems I have to make a call from my WinPE somewhere to get it.
All the other bits and pieces is allready there I PXE my server, chainloads
onto WDS, the WDS is serving me my boot.wim customizing it with my
wdsclientunattend.xml (planning to let it break at the choice of windows
flavour (standard, core, datacenter)), applys the install.wim. Obviously it
is somewhere here I want to do a download of the unattend.xml served by
foreman to c:\windows\panther, but I can't wrap my head arround how to get
that to work. Is there a file I should edit? The option of running
synchronus commands embedded in the wdsclientunattend.xml obviously
executes to early.
So how do I do this? Where is the secret I've been unable to see?
//Fredrik
Never mind figured it out. Foreman + WDS = Success
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On Thursday, 7 April 2016 15:09:59 UTC+2, Fredrik Nilsson wrote:
Hi,
This question has most certainly allready been asked, I’ve seen threads
where people obviously have solved my issue, but found none where anyone
care to explain how and thought I’d better start me a new thread then to
bump/hijack an old one.
So provisioning Windows…
What I want to accomplish is this, and I feel I’m almost there, is to bare
metal provision my windows hosts from Foreman chainloading over to WDS that
will serve the images needed. Yes, I am aware of the wimaging project but
don’t find it suiting for my needs as I have my WDS and that is a
requirement for my environment. And from what I found on my standard search
engine is that people have accomplished this, obviously my obstacle was a
nobrainer for them, sadly I’m not that lucky. My problem is how to get my
customized unattend.xml down from Foreman before my first reboot? Obviously
WDS by default can only handle a per-image unattend.xml so it by itself
seemingly can’t serve a per-server unattend.xml which is what I want. So
from what it seems I have to make a call from my WinPE somewhere to get it.
All the other bits and pieces is allready there I PXE my server,
chainloads onto WDS, the WDS is serving me my boot.wim customizing it with
my wdsclientunattend.xml (planning to let it break at the choice of windows
flavour (standard, core, datacenter)), applys the install.wim. Obviously it
is somewhere here I want to do a download of the unattend.xml served by
foreman to c:\windows\panther, but I can’t wrap my head arround how to get
that to work. Is there a file I should edit? The option of running
synchronus commands embedded in the wdsclientunattend.xml obviously
executes to early.
So how do I do this? Where is the secret I’ve been unable to see?
//Fredrik
Glad you got it sorted, and sorry you didn't get any better reply earlier 
Would you be willing to write up something in casse others get stuck in
similar circumstances? A blog post[1,2] or wiki entry[3] detailing your
process would be useful to other members of the community, I'm sure.
[1] Foreman :: Foreman Blog
[2] https://github.com/theforeman/theforeman.org/tree/gh-pages/_posts
[3] Tutorials - Foreman
Thanks!
Greg
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On 15 April 2016 at 07:38, Fredrik Nilsson wrote:
Never mind figured it out. Foreman + WDS = Success
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